Lunch with the Libraries: Recollections of the Children's Experimental Theatre

Description

In summer 2022, the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries and Museums received an offer of a scrapbook, overflowing with black-and-white photos, play programs, sketches, news clippings, and more from the 1940s and 1950s, documenting the Children's Experimental Theatre in Baltimore, then based in Gilman Hall. The archives team had never heard of the program and there was scant documentation of it in the collection.

Join Katie Carey, Hodson curator of the University Archives, for a virtual discussion of the history of this unique program and the serendipitous ways in which the libraries receive donations to the University Archives. Carey will share the history of the Children's Experimental Theatre and the Johns Hopkins Playshop, later known as the Children's Theater Association and Theatre Hopkins. She'll also highlight how donations of rare and unique materials enrich and expand the university's special collections.

This event is hosted by Hopkins at Home. To join the session, use the link.